James pollard



(No ma i) J. POLLARD. APPARATUS FOR TREATING FABRIGS.

N0. 513,026. Patented Jan. 16,1894

UN TED STATE JAMES POLIJARD, OF HYDE, ASSIGNOR TO MATI-IER & PLATT,LIMITED, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING FABRICS.

$PECIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 5 13,026, dated January16, 1 894'. Application filed September 23, 1893. Serial No. 486,291.(No model.) Patented in England December 29. 1888,1Io. 18,987.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. JAMES POLLARD, engineer, a subject of the Queen ofEngland, residing at Newton Bank Print Works, Hyde, 1n the county ofChester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inApparatus for Washing, Soaping, Scourin g, Bleaching, Dyeing, andotherwise Similarly Treating Textile Fabrics, (for which I have receivedLetters Patent in Great Britain, No. 18,987, dated December 29, 1888,)of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for washing, soaping,scouring, bleaching, dyeing, and otherwise similarly treating textilefabrics and consists mainly in the construction, use and application ofan lmproved beater as a substitute for the ordinary wince or revolvingbeater which in one form as now constructed is a solid square woodenroller with projections or beating pieces fixed thereon. Now accordingto my invention I construct a skeleton roller the perlphery of which ismade up of say four or other number metal blades with scoops fixed upondisks, spider wheels or equivalents which are secured upon an axle andare driven in any convenient manner. The front edges of these blades actas beaters when they strike against the fabric and the scoops inrevolvmg collect some of the water or other liquid in which they dip anddash such liquid against the fabric.

In order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carriedinto efiect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings referencebeing had to the letters marked thereon. Figure 1 is a sectionalelevation illustrating the application of my improved rollers to amachine for washing, soaping, scouring, bleaching, dyeing, orotherwisesimilarlytreating textile fabrics. Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1 but withthe top guide rollers removed in order to show my improved rollers moreclearly. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views showing'one of my improvedrollers on a larger scale.

In Figs. 1 and 2 a designates the tank partially filled with the liquorfor washing or otherwise treating the fabric 19; c the roller over whichthe fabric 12 passes into the tank a under and over two series of guiderollers d (1' respectively, the fabric passing finally out of the tank aover the guide roller (2. During its passage through the tank athefabric 1) is subjected to the action of a number of my improved rollersF. In the drawings eight of these rollers Fare shown but it is obviousthat anynumber from one upward may be employed.

Each roller F is constructed as best shown by the detail views Figs. 3and 4 where f designates the shaft or axle of the roller upon which aremounted disks or spider wheels f to which are bolted or otherwiserigidly affixed the four blades f shaped as shown best in Fig. 4; thefront edges of these blades f act as beaters when they strike againstthe fabric in revolving while the scoops dash against the fabric theliquid caught up by them as they revolve. The trough-shaped, or scoopingfaces of the blades f are turned outwardly, with relation to the roll F,carrying the same, whereby the fluid in the tank is dashed against thefabric in greater quantities and with greater force than is possiblewith blades having the trough -shaped, or scooping faces, turned intosuch position as to face toward prolonged radii of the roll F. Thedrawings show four blades f which is the number I consider most suitableand prefer to employ although any other number might be employed. Theposition of the guide rollers may be-such that the heaters strike eitherthe back or face of the cloth or both the back and face.

I take care that the level of the liquid in the tank a shall bemaintained at such a height that the blades f will always dip in theliquid as they revolve. I mount the axles f of the rollers F in suitablebearings supported by the sides of the tank and I propose to gear thesaid axles together by toothed wheels g and drive them from the shaft hby means of the two pairs of, bevel gears t' t' and jj respectively asshown or by other suitable arrangement of gearing so as to drive therollers alternately in opposite directions. I also propose to set therollers F so that each blade f in revolving will come opposite the spacebetween the adjacent pair of blades f on the next roller as shown inFig. 1.

Having thus described the nature of my said invention and the best meansI know for car-.

rying the same into practical efiect, I 'claim 1. In apparatus forwashing, soaping, scouring, bleaching, dyeing and otherwise similarlytreating textile fabrics, a roller made up of a number of blades carriedupon disks fixedon a shaft mounted in bearings and caused torevolve in atank containing liquid, said blades having scooped or trough-shapedfaces which are turned outward to operate both as beaters for strikingthe fabric traveling through the tank and as scoops for dashing theliquid in which they revolve against the said fabric,

a tank a partially filled with liquid, of rollers d, 01' over "which thefabric 79 to be treated is made to travel alternately in an upward anddownward-direction, and rollers F with blades provided with outwardlyturned scoop, or trough-shaped faces arranged so as to simultaneouslybeat and throw liquid upon each side of the traveling fabric, thescoop-like blades of the roller situated upon the one side of the fabricbeing so located as to operate thereon in the intervals between theactions of two successive blades of the roller situated on the otherside of the fabric, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 9th day of September, A. D.1893.

JAMES POLLARD.

Witnesses:

E1). BOUTFLOWER, N otary Public, lllanchester.

J AS. S. BROADFOOT, His Clerk, 11 Spring Gardens, lllcmchester.

